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Now 60 years old, I am still full of interest in food, obsessed with our traditional Yunnan Dian cuisine, and gladly accept foreign cuisine, I want to become the Yunnan god of food!
- Song Lanying
Editor's Note:
Kunming is a city I don't want to go to, some people say, because a person falls in love with a city. Song Lanying, the founder of Kunming Yide Restaurant, as a peer of the Republic, she has too many hardships and difficulties, but what she passes on to everyone is always sunshine and self-confidence. The gastronomic life of a "Yunnan God Eater Big Mother" immediately began.
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July 1, 2015
As peers of our generation of republics, our lives have gone through hardships and hardships, and our lives are full of constant challenges and possibilities.
In 1969, he went to the countryside, entered the workplace in 1974, and went to the sea to do business in 1988. At the school age, we went to the mountains and the countryside and lost the opportunity to continue our education, when we were in the prime of the industry, we worked hard in the factory, and when we entered the business sea, we almost lost the road, and finally insisted on it completely by courage and challenge to ourselves. In the 9 years of business in the sea, I have tried business in various industries, from jewelry and jadeite to daily necessities. After several ups and downs, I soberly realized that no matter what I do, positioning is very important, and I must make choices according to my own advantages and abilities, so that the chances of success are much greater.
At that time, we came to the vast world of the countryside with beautiful ideals in mind
After repeated thinking, with my understanding of cooking and the special plot of yunnan local cuisine, coupled with the skills of our generation of young people who can make delicious dishes with the simplest ingredients in the hard years, when the commodity economy began to develop and the ingredients were abundant, I believed that I would be able to make delicious dishes that everyone liked, so I chose catering, which is closely related to the lives of the people.
This is what I've been fighting for for decades
I think that the experience of life is also the basis for the formation of one's own culture. Is your own culture "go with the flow" or "perseverance"? Choosing "perseverance" must bravely face all difficulties, and seriously and firmly treat every challenge, and ultimately lead to success. Life is long and short, but some people have experienced many challenges and difficulties, then his life is very rich and wonderful, very story, and his life will appear very long because of meaning. On the contrary, some people have been mixed for decades, and their lives have no stories and no experiences, and their lives will appear short and pale. I chose "perseverance", in the catering road for 20 years, in these 20 years of hands-on management, I found that food is a kind of culture based on local natural conditions, product types, influenced by historical inheritance, national customs, through the precipitation of time and evolution of a culture.
With my brothers and sisters, I feel that my heart is extremely solid, without them(s), there would be no Yide today.
We cherish the honor we have received, which is the affirmation and love of consumers for Yide
When I got the medal, my expression was a little unnatural
The taste of winning the gold medal is beautiful, and I can't help but look at it
Yunnan local cuisine, the Dian cuisine of the Chinese culinary arts faction, has a unique natural advantage, with a wide variety of raw ingredients. In history, there is both the assimilation of the cooking methods of Nanjing immigrants in the late Qing Dynasty and the collision and combination with Western culture; coupled with the fact that Yunnan is located on the border, influenced by Southeast Asian cuisine and the influence of ethnic minority eating habits, Dian cuisine can be described as the best proof of rich multiculturalism.
Our steam pot chicken was founded in the famous city of Jianshui in southern Yunnan, thanks to the local specialty of purple clay clay and the ingenuity of the local people, invented the steam pot cooking utensils. The principle of the steam pot is that the steam steam steaming at the bottom of the pot is drilled into the pot through the cylindrical hole in the bottom of the pot, and the meat ingredients in the pot are distilled for 5-6 hours and made into a salty and refreshing steam pot chicken soup. This ensures the maximum authenticity of the ingredients and the clarity and pleasantness of the soup base.
Kudzu steam pot chicken has become the business card of Yunnan cuisine
Speaking of modern rice dumplings, the old Kunming people collectively called cakes as rice dumplings, and modern rice dumplings originated from the "pretzels" of old Kunming.
CCTV recorded the production of modern rice dumplings on the spot, and I wanted to play in person
Legend has it that during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, modern rice dumplings first appeared in the wheat cake shop in Fengyi Street, Kunming. The owner of this wheat cake shop is named Mordenko, who sells pretzels that are common to Kunming people, but unfortunately his pretzels are too hard, which affects the business in the store. A pair of beautiful daughters of Modenko had the opportunity to innovate and use the butter, milk powder and Cuban sugar brought by the American Flying Tigers, who were stationed in the Kunming area to support the War of Resistance Against Japan. As a result, the modified sweet and creamy "pretzels" were so delicious that they didn't sell like crazy before long. Because the Mo family sisters who sell cakes wear modern fashion, the Soldiers of the Flying Tigers call the cakes in the wheat cake shop "modern rice dumplings". Since then, the modern canon has been called out among the old Kunming people, and it should be said that the widespread use of the word "modern" in the Kunming dialect has a lot to do with the modern canon. Pleasant's modern rice dumplings are full of wheat and cream aromas, and they are crispy on the outside and soft on the inside, with a chewy head and an aftertaste. In addition to ordering modern rice and dine-in food, many of Yide's regular customers also pack home to make breakfast.
Rose milk fan
Let's talk about our milk cakes and milk fans in Yunnan, Dali and Lunan in Yunnan are rich in cow and goat milk, and milk cakes and milk fans made of cow and goat milk are common ingredients on the tables of the people of Yunnan. Milk cakes and milk fans are full of the sweet and creamy cream of cow and goat's milk, and although the taste of milk cakes and milk fans is somewhat special, people who like dairy products will like it very much. The root cause is that once when I was traveling abroad, I happened to taste a cheese ham baked potato snack in a small French market, which I thought was familiar, like ham and milk cakes in my hometown. I wonder why the Yunnan people's process of making milk cake milk fans is so similar to the Western diet. I personally believe that when the French missionaries came to Yunnan from Vietnam, they accidentally taught the Yunnan people how to make cheese in their common life with the locals, and since then we have had milk cakes in Yunnan, which are so similar to cheese delicious ingredients.
Dried pepper porcini mushrooms
We Yunnan people call ourselves the sons and daughters of the mountains because we have to walk through thousands of rivers and mountains to reach the outside world. The endless mountains and abundant rain bring us precious wild mushrooms. Yunnan people most commonly eat at least 10 kinds of fungi, each of which condenses the breath and taste of the mountains. As a Yunnan native, if you don't eat wild mushrooms in any summer, then this year is like missing some big event. The most common porcini mushrooms are fried with dried peppers or green peppers, crisp and refreshing, fresh and fragrant, although there is a risk of eating puffer fish, but it is really an irresistible delicacy!
Sherwin-Williams Ham Sandwich Cake
Finally, let's talk about our Yunnan people's ability to eat flowers, sweet and fragrant roses we use to make rose honey, make rose wine, and make flower cakes. The big woody azaleas on the trees we brought with sauce and ate them. Our original dish "Five Golden Flowers" is a pickled leek flower and fresh pomegranate flowers, jasmine flowers, sugar pear blossoms, walnut flowers are fried together, with the fragrance of jasmine, the crispness of pomegranate flowers and the sweetness of several other flowers, the magic is indescribable.
With the handsome host, I was also younger
CCTV filmed the scene of Kudzu steam pot chicken, and I personally went into battle.
I am most happy to be able to explain to the audience the production of kudzu steam pot chicken
Growing up in Kunming's ordinary alleys, I aspired to find authentic old Kunming tastes, and in my spare time, I searched everywhere for traditional home-cooked dishes and snacks in Kunming, and I also went to taste the delicious cuisines of major cuisines across the country, while also retaining the taste practices of some foreign cuisines. Now 60 years old, I am still full of interest in food, obsessed with our traditional Yunnan Dian cuisine, and gladly accept foreign cuisine, I want to become the Yunnan god of food!
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